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13 Jan 2020, 8:41 pm

no more figs for me eether.



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13 Jan 2020, 9:59 pm

I know (now) that as a young doctor before marriage

my mom had to help with victims of a bombing done by India in Islamabad,
and the memory of seeing ppl with half their skull gonr and screaming put her off practicing medicine again.

Therefore I know now that it was not my dad's doing as I assumed, but her own choice.

Therefore my assumptions and my worldview need to be looked at again, keeping in mind such obvious 'poor theory of mind.'


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14 Jan 2020, 8:59 pm

If you eat shrimp salad you shouldn't mind figs laced with wasp meat.

Insects are just crustaceans (shrimp, crabs, lobsters, scampi) that live on land. :D



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14 Jan 2020, 9:29 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
If you eat shrimp salad you shouldn't mind figs laced with wasp meat.

Insects are just crustaceans (shrimp, crabs, lobsters, scampi) that live on land. :D

that is why i don't eat them.



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14 Jan 2020, 9:29 pm

The Labrador Retriever dog breed is named after the Labrador Sea not Labrador.


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15 Jan 2020, 9:58 pm

I know that Ataturk died of liver poisoning.


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17 Jan 2020, 2:25 pm

Greyhounds are universal blood donors. Most greyhounds have a blood type that can be given to almost any other breed of dog on the planet.


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Maine is closer to Africa than Florida and the entire American South.



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19 Jan 2020, 2:19 pm

There are no mosquitoes in Iceland.

Due to colder weather and fewer ponds, the country has no mosquito population….. except for one that’s been in a jar of alcohol at the Icelandic Institute of Natural History since the 1980s, when a University of Iceland biologist caught it inside an airplane.

“I chased it around the cabin until I got it… It’s the only mosquito I’ve ever found in Iceland.”


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19 Jan 2020, 5:34 pm

equestriatola wrote:
There are no mosquitoes in Iceland.

Due to colder weather and fewer ponds, the country has no mosquito population….. except for one that’s been in a jar of alcohol at the Icelandic Institute of Natural History since the 1980s, when a University of Iceland biologist caught it inside an airplane.

“I chased it around the cabin until I got it… It’s the only mosquito I’ve ever found in Iceland.”


Really? That's the best way to advertise tourism for that country, if that's true. Esp for ads aimed at people in hot climates.
'Come to Iceland. We have no blood suckers. At least, not of the insect variety.'


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20 Jan 2020, 2:03 am

There was once a French army officer that became a Swedish king. His name is Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte. Known as Charles XIV John of Sweden.



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27 Jan 2020, 6:27 pm

St. Patrick once said "any snake who wishes to remain here in Ireland...please raise your right hand!".



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27 Jan 2020, 9:39 pm

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27 Jan 2020, 10:10 pm

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St. Patrick once said "any snake who wishes to remain here in Ireland...please raise your right hand!".


Was he talking about figurative snakes (eg personality/betrayal type) or actual snakes?


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28 Jan 2020, 9:31 pm

blooiejagwa wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
St. Patrick once said "any snake who wishes to remain here in Ireland...please raise your right hand!".


Was he talking about figurative snakes (eg personality/betrayal type) or actual snakes?


Ireland famously doesn't have any native snake population.

The snakes were actually driven out by the glaciers in the last Ice Age,and blocked from returning to the island by the sea rise caused by the melting of said glaciers, but according to Irish folklore it was St. Patrick who drove out the snakes from Ireland. So it's kinda obvious that I am talking about literal snakes of the reptilian persuasion.



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